Bicycles, bangs, and bloomers : the new woman in the popular press /
The so-called ""New Woman""--That determined and free-wheeling figure in ""rational"" dress, demanding education, suffrage, and a career-was a frequent target for humorists in the popular press of the late nineteenth century. She invariably stood in contrast t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015. |
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| Summary: | The so-called ""New Woman""--That determined and free-wheeling figure in ""rational"" dress, demanding education, suffrage, and a career-was a frequent target for humorists in the popular press of the late nineteenth century. She invariably stood in contrast to the ""womanly woman, "" a traditional figure bound to domestic concerns and a stereotype away from which many women were inexorably moving. Patricia Marks's book, based on a survey of satires and caricatures drawn from British and American periodicals of the 1880s and 1890s, places the popular view of the New Woman in the context of the. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780813158631 081315863X 1322596700 9781322596709 0813117046 9780813117041 |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |